File Recovery issue (resubmitted)
Posted: 07 Dec 2013, 17:08
Hey everyone, recently my ext hd which is a 500gb seagate freeagent goflex has become inaccessible, showing up as drive K and asking me to format it. Shortly before this I was able to use the drive but whenever I clicked on an image or video a message would tell me that that file was missing. There doesn't seem to be any physical problems wrong with the drive, no clicking noises or anything, it just stopped working. I really just want my files back, if I can recover the drive that would be nice.
I'm really bad at these sort of things, I tried many programs like getdataback but I only got disk read errors, and that happened with Testdisk/photorec at first but I have been able to recover some files. In testdisk my drive appears with the correct space as a physical drive and drive K. I was only successful working with drive k and not the physical one.
When I click on none I find one partition that has some of my files on it. There is a list that I moved to an seperate ext hd. All of the files that it did recover, it place them in the same order, spot, and date I had them in. Photorec also found more files, but a lot are missing.
This part seems ok, mirrors match perfectly
I tried using intel/pc instead of none and three more partitions show up
I could just make an image of sys 72 and sys 74, photorec recovered more missing files from those. I don't know what to do about the space conflict issue or if I have to change the geometry around. I was thinking that because the drives blocksize is 4096. I did nothing further, I know more of my files are there I just don't know what to do next. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
I'm really bad at these sort of things, I tried many programs like getdataback but I only got disk read errors, and that happened with Testdisk/photorec at first but I have been able to recover some files. In testdisk my drive appears with the correct space as a physical drive and drive K. I was only successful working with drive k and not the physical one.
When I click on none I find one partition that has some of my files on it. There is a list that I moved to an seperate ext hd. All of the files that it did recover, it place them in the same order, spot, and date I had them in. Photorec also found more files, but a lot are missing.
This part seems ok, mirrors match perfectly
I tried using intel/pc instead of none and three more partitions show up
I could just make an image of sys 72 and sys 74, photorec recovered more missing files from those. I don't know what to do about the space conflict issue or if I have to change the geometry around. I was thinking that because the drives blocksize is 4096. I did nothing further, I know more of my files are there I just don't know what to do next. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.